Monday, January 19, 2015

Joined the Deloraine Jazz Club and went to my first concert/dance Friday night. It was fabulous! I'd forgotten how good live music is. Especially with such talented musicians and singer. Sorry...no photos, but will try and get some at the next event.

Monday, January 12, 2015

Marnie, Phil and Denver gave me a gift voucher for The Black Hen for Christmas. Bought a wooden ampersand with it...

(Bet you didn't know that was what this symbol was called!)

B

Books from the library on the go...

(Beautiful houses in the wood book!)

C
Bought this coffee/cappuccino maker. Now I have to work out how to use it...

(Made my first cup this morning...delish!)

D
Marnie and Denver have moved to Melbourne for a couple of years, so I have been busy de-cluttering and re-arranging furniture...

(Still a way to go...but getting there...)

E

Is for everything else...

Christmas Day I helped out (as I did the previous year) at the charity lunch held here in Deloraine. Cooking, serving, washing dishes... It was fun, working with a nice bunch of people. Hope to do it again next Christmas.

"Be generous with encouragement. It is verbal sunshine. It costs nothing, it warms hearts and enriches lives."(Nicky Gumbel)

"You stand in your own light. Make it shine."(unknown)

"I’ve learned that you shouldn’t go through life with a catcher’s mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back. I’ve learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision. I’ve learned that even when I have pains, I don’t have to be one.... I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."(Maya Angelou)

"Getting a taste of what you long for is usually more painful than just going hungry."(Leigh Newman - Still Points North)

"It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed."(von Goethe)

"I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy."(Rabindranath Tagore)

"Let your life speak."(Quaker saying)

"Power, success, happiness, as the world knows them, are his who will fight for them hard enough; but peace, love, joy are only from God."(Frederick Buechner)

"What is faith in God, after all, but believing in advance what will only make sense in reverse."(Philip Yancey)

" 'Tis all but loss of time that passes not in loving."(Torquato Tasso)

"Enjoy the moments. Sometimes that is all we get."(Moi)

"Life wasn't meant to be easy, my child, but take courage: it can be delightful!"(George Bernard Shaw)

“To love without knowing how to love wounds the person we love.”(Thich Nhat Hanh)

"We don't remember days, we remember moments."(Cesare Pavese)

"I am myself and no one else. I am me."(Henning Mankell)

"We are not called to duplicate someone else on earth but to realize our authentic selves."(Philip Yancey)

"You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending."(C.S. Lewis)

"My life has been the poem I would have writ, but I could not both live and utter it"(Henry David Thoreau)

"To follow your heart even when you are afraid is courage."(Midnight Sun)